I only planted the seeds.
You tilled the ground and made it fine.
It was you who broke the hardened soil, and worked through each new line.
You added nutrition to the dust and fertilized the dirt,
Scraping every inch of earth, though your hands, they bled and hurt.
You sifted through rocks and plowed the weeds, under the beating sun.
Never once giving up or shutting your eyes, till the work was done.
I only planted the seeds.
How great I must’ve thought I was, far bigger than I am;
To think that I should be the one with the master plan.
For you caused the sun to shine its warmth, and the cool, wet rain to fall;
You kept the creatures and the bugs from devouring it all.
And yet I cried out: How unfair! I wanted to see it through!
After all my work in what I did, I never witnessed the fruit!
But really, I only planted the seed, it was never my job to watch it grow.
How hard to admit it’s up to you, harder still to let them go!
For that little seed was planted with care, with tears and with my heart!
How then could I step back and let it wither, couldn’t I play a bigger part?
“These things take time, my dear,” you spoke to me,
“Your job is done! Now let it be.”
Oh that I could see what came from my tiny, dead, old seeds! I may never really know.
For it was only my job to plant the seed, now it’s yours to make it grow.
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